The number of active hate groups in the U.S. The Proud Boys has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He lives in Atlanta with his family.īook Reading and Conversation with Efrén C.Members of the Proud Boys march toward Freedom Plaza during a protest in December 2020 in Washington, D.C. He is an avid soccer fan and enjoys reading books about famous art thefts. Olivares is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School.
His writings on immigration policy have been published in The New York Times, USA Today and Newsweek, and he has testified before Congress and at briefings on Capitol Hill about immigration and border policies.
He also worked at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and at Fulbright & Jaworski LLP (now Norton Rose Fulbright). Before joining the SPLC, Olivares was the director of the Racial and Economic Justice Program at the Texas Civil Rights Project. He has litigated in state and federal courts and has represented clients before international human rights bodies. He now directs the Immigrant Justice Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, where he leads a team of advocates seeking justice for detained immigrants, immigrant workers, families and those seeking asylum and protection. He immigrated to the United States from Mexico as a teenager and was the first in his family to attend college.
Olivares is an immigrant, civil rights lawyer and writer. The conversation will be livestreamed from 6:10 p.m. The talk will take place at the Civil Rights Memorial Center (400 Washington Ave, Montgomery, AL 36104). Olivares, author of “My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration from the Front Lines." The event will be hosted by Tafeni English, director of the Civil Rights Memorial Center, and the conversation with Olivares will be moderated by Lecia Brooks, SPLC chief of staff and culture. Please join the Southern Poverty Law Center for a book reading and conversation with Efrén C. We are providing ASL, Captions and a Spanish-language version on our website:
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